Sentences with phrase «precarious workers»

Additionally, it proposes new rights and protections for the large and growing numbers of precarious workers in the service economy.

We simply can not tolerate the continued existence of a federal program that has facilitated the creation of a two - tiered labour market in which unscrupulous employers are allowed to use a vulnerable underclass of precarious workers to drive down wages, displace Canadians and avoid their responsibilities related to training.

Ryan Newell examines how Bill 18's amendments to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 will impact the working lives of low - wage and precarious workers.

Ryan Newell looks at amendments to the Employment Standards Act that could be significant for low wage and precarious workers.

However, Bill 18 certainly does not address all of the features of the ESA which limit precarious workers» access to justice.

These changes are likely to have a large impact on the working lives of low - wage and precarious workers.

These two amendments may appear trivial, but I expect that they will have a huge impact on the working lives of precarious workers.

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided that the interpretation suggested by the school board would put precarious workers in the untenable position of having to choose between getting as well as keeping the job, and protecting their health and safety.

Southwark Notes (London), Precarious Workers Brigade (London), no.w.here (Artist run project space, London), Design Action Research Hub, London College of Communications, 56a Infoshop, (London) & Concrete Heart Land (London)

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

The Law Commission even suggests this growing legion of precarious workers is on the verge of full - blown class consciousness, preciously calling them the «precariat.»

Not exact matches

But the dramatic economic downturn in the world economy that hurt so many workers starting in 2008 only accelerated a decades - long trend toward more precarious jobs and the unstable hours, low wages, minimal benefits and insecurity that this work means for so many.

It's a word that, here, does not so much connote an actual small - business owner as a feeling — an image of the young worker in the 21st - century gig economy who DJs on the weekends and, while almost certainly doing underpaid and entirely precarious labour, has earned the right to work from her local coffee shop in the slouchy drop - shoulder crewneck of her choice.

There's some argument that precarious employment is actually good for workers and the economy.

When the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance dutifully looked into youth unemployment last summer, it heard familiar tales of outrage and woe from university student groups and organized labour fretting about student debt, precarious work and temporary foreign workers.

The precarious workforce includes workers with insecure employment arrangements with few job protections, including temporary workers, freelance workers and independent contractors, part - time workers, and day laborers.

The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

Top precarious jobs include retail or restaurant staff; freelance or contract office temps; and temporary foreign workers in agriculture.

In August, the Law Commission of Ontario released Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work, a study motivated by «the need to reduce precarious woPrecarious Work, a study motivated by «the need to reduce precarious woprecarious work.»

The Canadian Auto Workers last year launched a national campaign titled: «Precarious Work Affects Us All!»

And that extra $ 300bn in tax revenue comes from a precarious assumption: that lower taxes will encourage businesses to buy more machines, making workers more productive.

A recent report from the Institute for Research on Public Policy found that women, younger workers and those in precarious or non-traditional jobs are less likely to qualify.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

Meanwhile, precarious employment is increasing in Canada, especially the proportion of self - employed workers and those in temporary jobs, and especially for younger workers.

The PEPSO study found that racialized workers are also more likely to be in precarious employment.

Conducted by the Retail Action Project, a community organizing group co-founded by the union RWDSU, the survey of more than 110 people on 14 CUNY campuses — or one - quarter of all CUNY food service workers — reported numerous instances of what it says are workers being served «a steady diet of low wages, few benefits, precarious schedules and labor violations.»

He also urged workers to consider the «precarious nature» of the country's economy when pursuing their demands, saying it was only through such considerations that the government can accept realistic demands.

«We feel greatly the pains parents and students are going through as I am appealing to the staff and management of the university to understand the precarious financial situation of the two states particularly Osun where the revenue could not even pay the salaries of the mainstream workers», Aregbesola stressed.

«The options that these workers have are to continue in precarious employment forever, to leave their job, or to secure indefinite employment but abandon their scientific career as a consequence.»

In the debate over scientific immigration, however — another symptom of the system's decay — the voices of the scientific and technical workers most affected, the Ph.D. s in precarious early - career positions and the technical workers facing competition from abroad, have scarcely been heard, Hira says.

8.8 protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments of all workers, including migrant workers, particularly women migrants, and those in precarious employment

A recent report from the Institute for Research on Public Policy found that women, younger workers and those in precarious or non-traditional jobs are less likely to qualify.

The show, which is titled «Philly Mega Transit,» often shows SEPTA workers in very precarious working situations.

Her graduate research on migrant domestic workers fueled her dedication to workplace rights, particularly for the most precarious sectors of the workforce.

«The scope of our review is very broad and, while we intend to deal with a variety of matters,... our key focus will be on vulnerable workers in precarious jobs and the need for legislative amendments to address some of the issue facing these workers,» wrote the special advisors in their interim report.

«An important focus is on vulnerable workers in precarious jobs in the context of employment standards and labour relations,» the interim report's authors note.

«Workers across Canada are facing precarious, low - wage jobs and tough economic times,» added Deena Ladd from the Workers Action Centre.

«The media is full of stories of migrant worker exploitation, but this moratorium won't end the abuse it will just make workers more precarious,» insists Senthil Thevar, who came to Canada as a Temporary Foreign Worker in the food sector and was forced to switch jobs because of workers rights violaworker exploitation, but this moratorium won't end the abuse it will just make workers more precarious,» insists Senthil Thevar, who came to Canada as a Temporary Foreign Worker in the food sector and was forced to switch jobs because of workers rights violaWorker in the food sector and was forced to switch jobs because of workers rights violations.

The overhaul is intended to benefit workers by raising the minimum wage in two stages to $ 15 an hour by 2019, ensuring equal pay for part - time employees, increasing vacation entitlements and making it easier to unionize in certain sectors where employment is precarious.

The position of zero hours workers can be precarious.

Fay Faraday, a lawyer and visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School who has written leading reports on migrant worker rights, disagrees, «Access to permanent residence has become precarious and unpredictable.

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The Changing Workplace Review is making recommendations to ensure that laws about employment and unionization meet the needs of all workers, especially those in the most precarious jobs.

The amendment is aimed at helping protect workers in precarious groups, such as migrant workers, including agricultural workers and live - in caregivers.

But now, as a result of the Harper government's approach — an approach which, I might add, was never brought to Parliament for approval — we're now bringing more people into the country each year as precarious guest workers than as permanent residents and citizens.

Many of the injured workers IWC assists are women, immigrants, and work in non-union or precarious employment situations.

This contributes to the growing ranks of workers in precarious work.

And yet, migrant workers who come to Canada under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, especially low - skilled streams, will tell you again and again that they are paying fees, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, for the promise of a low - paid, precarious job in Canada.

The Court's decision in Caron will be significant for injured workers facing employment discrimination, especially for those who are already marginalized, non-unionized or precarious.

Workers who are in precarious and low - wage jobs are also at greater risk of being injured at work, less likely to report injury or unsafe working conditions, and much more likely to fall into poverty when injured.